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You may have noticed a new link in the navigation bar "Personal Recipes" - a new feature released today.   We've been listening to your feedback, and just like many of you, we have a huge collection of clippings that we've collected over the years. We wanted those recipes to be included in our EYB recipe searches - along with cookbooks, magazines and blogs. 

We've created a simple to use data input form that accesses the EYB ingredients and category libraries - so you can index your own personal recipes.   To access the form just click on the Personal Recipes link - each field has a Help link that will give you indexing guidelines so you can index your recipes to be consistent with the way EYB indexes cookbooks and magazines.

We are working on a simpler way to add online recipes to your Personal Recipe collection, so whenever you see a recipe you like on a website, you can add it to your Bookshelf.  We would suggest you focus on entering your hard copy recipes now and wait until we have the online version.

Let us know what you think.

Hi Melanie

Thanks so much for reporting.  Our developers have fixed it, so working OK now.  It was only affecting "Store-cupboard ingredients".

Fiona

Jay! Very happy to be able to add those recipes which are the only one in a book that I don't use at all, and the newspaper cuttings, and the old favorites... great!

However, I noticed I can't edit a recipe after I have added it. Have I missed a button?

You can edit your personal recipes from your Bookshelf - just click on the gray pencil image next to the recipe name:

It was in the Help file, but not with an image, so I've added one - Editing and Deleting Recipes

Glad to hear you're enjoying indexing your personal recipes. 

The answer to your question Catherine is 77!  I often put odd ingredients in the recipe search just to see what sort of recipes use them - pickling recipes and lots of Diana Kennedy Mexican recipes in this case.  A tip when adding fruit and veges - they are nearly always plural so if you type in "limes" it will be at the top of the list.

I suspect this is already in the plan but a useful feature would be to be able to enter in complete personal recipes including quantities and directions (and share them).  I have several hand-written recipes that are slowly falling apart as I use them.  It would be cool to preserve them electronically in an indexable way.  Who knows, maybe someone else would be interested in a gyoza recipe my mom wrote down in a cooking class in Japan more than 40 years ago -- they're quite tasty.

I love this! I have just spent a cold and foogy Sunday afternoon entering some of my many clippings. It's great to have everything in one place at last. Thank you.

I posted something similar on the "Any plan to index Ipad cookbook apps" thread, but I thought maybe this was a better place to offer a suggestion...

First off, I'd like to mention that I absolutely love the new feature allowing us to index our personal recipes.  I was just thinking that since so many of our clippings (or mine at least) come from magazines that are already indexed, it would be nice to be able to add individual recipes from indexed magazines to our shelves.  Right now we do have that ability, but only if the recipe also has an online link.  I was wondering if we could have the option to add any magazine recipe to our bookshelf, regardless of if it has a link or not?  Afterall, someone has already taken the time and effort to index these particular recipes.  

This would be a nice option for people (like me) who don't save entire magazines, but pick and choose what to add to our collections. 

I agree, and am also wondering if one could add an internet recipe to their personal file, via the link on the web.  I have a few favorites, that I have printed out, but would love to just pull up the link.  Overall it is a great feature!  I have also added a few really basic foods, so that I can put them on my shopping list, for now, despite the fact that they are not really a recipe.

Cheri - your request is closest as we are working on that right now. You will be able to mark any online recipe you like the look of, and then index the recipe for you and everyone else on EYB.  These are the only Personal recipes that will be available to all EYB users.

Chris - we do plan to add that feature but we haven't started it yet so it's a bit further off.

glaysche - we have thought about adding complete recipes but it's not an area we want to get into or spend development time on, as there are so many recipe sites out there competing in that space.  EYB is a recipe search engine, so it's unlikely (never say never!) that we will have a facility for adding a complete recipe with quantities etc.  The purpose of EYB is to help you find recipes, in your books, magazines, online and now your files.  However, we also have lots of those little hand written scraps, that aren't going to last much longer, and thought it would be useful to note down the recipes and instructions, so we expanded the Notes field so you have quite a lot of room to do this.

Awesome! This site just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for the quick reply :)

Thank you for coming up with the idea of personal recipe indexing. I have several old family cookery books, some dating back to 1930s and 40s which have been annotated by our predecessors including recipes we both remember so I shall be able to index the favourites now. 

I have lots of books that predate ISBN so cannot be entered on 'my bookshelf', now I can remind myself of old favourite recipes that I can index.

 Is there anyone else out there who has a 'Cordon Bleu Cookery Course' ?  It was produced as a partwork in 72 magazines in the late 1960s in the UK, each one had a 3 course meal 'dinner party'style and a separate theme each week and I taught myself to cook from it. It still sits in 4 blue file boxes on my kitchen bookshelf and gets used, not often now as some of the ideas are a bit dated but many are classics.  My son-in-law pounces on it every time he visits as he can remember his mother using it all the time. Each magazine has about 30 recipes in it so that is 2000+ altogether.  I am just so pleased that I shall be able to index the ones that still get used.

Saladdays - I remember that series too though I haven't still got any of them - I wonder if my mum does?  Are you going to just index selected recipes from the Cordon Bleu series?  If you are thinking you might index each entire magazine then it would be great if you did that as member indexing rather than personal recipes.  You just let me know the details for each magazine and I could add them to the Library - because they don't have ISBN numbers you wouldn't be able to do a book request through Import Books.

We will soon be adding a feature that will allow you to add your pre-ISBN books.

I will hang on then and wait until I can index them through member indexing. I am already on my second book, it can get quite addictive.

EYB is going from strength to strength, there seems no limit to what we can do !

That's great - you would just need to send me the following info for the magazines you want to add:

Title, publisher, date of publication.  I'm not sure if we will be able to find the covers anywhere - do you have a scanner that you could scan the covers?

This is a fantastic feature. In addition to adding personal recipes, I'm also using it to index my non-English books that are not in the EYB database. Combined with the member indexing feature, this feature closes the gap such that I will now be able to do one search to capture all of my recipes. Great work.